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Begell House　THERMOPEDIA
"William Begell Medal" by Yelena S. Begell
Max Jakob Memorial Award
The Combustion Institute

		No. 1 (July 29, 2018)
		No. 2 (June 10, 2019)
		No. 3 (May 19, 2021)
		No. 4 (Jan. 31, 2022)      normal-printing version      spread-printing version
		No. 5 (Sept. 1, 2022)
		No. 6 (May 8, 2023) Enlarged figures in the article of "THERMOPEDIA" by Y.S. Begell
		No. 7 (March 18, 2024)   normal-printing version    spread-printing version
		No. 8 (May 1, 2025) (minorly revised at UTC0300 on May 3, 2025)
		Part 2 (since Thermal No. 4)
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		Tributes
		Memorial Slides after IHTC-14 Memorial Slides after IHTC-15 Memorial Slides after IHTC-16
		Report on Plenary Panel “The Role of Thermal Science in Meeting Societal Challenges” at the 15th International Heat Transfer Conference (IHTC-15)					Video 1 Video 2 Video 3
edited by Prof. Kazuya Tatsumi
		Historical Development in the Thought of Thermal Science - Heat and Entropy Preface and Chapters 18-20 (250 Years after James Watt and 200 Years after Sadi Carnot) by Yoshitaka Yamamoto    (English Translation by Hideo Yoshida)					PPT Slide
		ICHMT 50th Anniversary (THMT18, Rio de Janeiro, 10-13 July 2018) by Kemo Hanjalić
		Luikov’s Scientific History and the Evolution of ICHMT by Sadik Kakaç
		International Centre for Heat and Mass Transfer (ICHMT) Brief Introduction to Member Institutions and Scientific Council Members (October, 2020, revised January 2022)
IHTC-7: September 1982 in München   (average: about 56 years old)
January 1982                                    January 1983
From Galilei* to Nernst in Thermal Science
* The House of Elzevir (1583-1712) was founded by Lodewijk Elzevir (1540? 6? 7?–1617). Galilei's "The Discourses and Mathematical Demonstrations Relating to Two New Sciences" was published in 1638 by Lodewijk Elzevir (1604–70), the grandson of the founder.
Born in the sixteenth century Galileo Galilei (1564‒1642) Pierre Gassendi (1592‒1655) René Descartes (1596‒1650) Born in the seventeenth century Robert Boyle (1627‒1691) Robert Hooke (1635‒1703) Isaac Newton (1642‒1727) Thomas Savery (ca.1650‒1715) Thomas Newcomen (1664‒1729) Herman Boerhaave (1668‒1738) Stephen Hales (1677‒1761) John Theophilus Desaguliers (1683‒1744) Colin Maclaurin (1698‒1746) Born in the eighteenth century Benjamin Franklin (1706‒1790) William Cullen (1710‒1790) David Hume (1711‒1776) Joseph Black (1728‒1799) James Watt (1736‒1819) William Irvine (1743‒1787) Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743‒1794) Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749‒1827) Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford (1753‒1814) Lazare Carnot (1753–1823) William Cleghorn (1754‒1783) (not Wikipedia) John Dalton (1766‒1844)				Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768‒1830) Thomas Young (1773‒1829) Charles Bernard Desormes (1777‒1838) Louis Joseph Gay-Lussac (1778‒1850) Nicolas Clément (1779–1841) Siméon Denis Poisson (1781‒1840) Michael Faraday (1791‒1867) William Whewell (1794‒1866) Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (1796‒1832) Émile Clapeyron (1799‒1864) Born in the nineteenth century Henri Regnault (1810–1878) Carl Holtzmann (1811‒1865) (German) Julius Robert von Mayer (1814‒1878) James Prescott Joule (1818‒1889) Hermann von Helmholtz (1821‒1894) Rudolf Clausius (1822‒1888) William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (1824‒1907) Julius Thomsen (1826‒1909) Marcellin Berthelot (1827‒1907) James Clerk Maxwell (1831‒1879) Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839‒1903) August Horstmann (1842‒1929) Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann (1844‒1906) Jacobus Henricus vanʼt Hoff (1852‒1911) Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck (1858‒1947) Walther Hermann Nernst (1864‒1941)